Re: Install i386 or amd64?

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 3 February 2014 06:46, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724%bellsouth.net@localhost> 
wrote:
> I read the FreeBSD wiki page for i386-wine and saw that building under amd64 
> required building an i386 installation to /compat/i386, so I figured it made 
> more sense to install to a separate partition or removable disk such as USB, 
> and the to use under amd64, mount on /compat/i386


I have two questions:

1) If Wine requires kernel support that is only available on i386, how
would a /compat/i386 solve the problem?

2) Wouldn't there be then two layers of emulation, ie 64 to 32, and 32
to Windows? Is it worth the pain?


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Ottavio